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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:01:47 +0000

[...] — back in the day, filing meant you were S.O.L.; these days, not so much: Creative Loafing filed for Chapter 11 back in September and is still among the living — it’s still a sign that something’s [...]

By: MarcTwain

MarcTwain — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:49:49 +0000

So we have Creative Loafing and we have New Times…two “journalism” chains that have no journalistic — or business — sense at all.

Buying up independent alternative weeklies deserves whatever bad karma it gets.

By: GW

GW — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:28:02 +0000

Should have hired me when you had the chance…

By: vahiless@bugmenot.com

vahiless@bugmenot.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:01:07 +0000

see this comment from alleged former staffer “PassThe Beer” (dated October 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm) at the site of CL’s D.C. “Washington City Paper”

Wow. There’s some behind the scenes action:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/09/29/city-paper-owner-files-for-bankruptcy/#comment-353604

By: Duh!

Duh! — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:36:27 +0000

Let me just say that many, many of us former sales staffers at the loaf had the foresight to basically BEG for a larger online presense as far back as 5-7years ago. The requests were continually ignored… Here is what you get.

By: Independent my hass

Independent my hass — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:45:55 +0000

I grew up with the Atlanta CL, and seen them in Charlotte and some incarnation in Greenville, SC. The staffs always made snotty comments about how they were “independents”, while they were just as corporate as the big boys, eating up all of their competitors.

Irnoic to see them go through the same erosion of advertising. At least their smugness is not contrived this time.

Long live the true independents!

By: John Sugg

John Sugg — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:54:39 +0000

Fair jabs from my critics, but I’ve gone after the alts as well as the dailies. The above item was a quick hit as the news was breaking. See my fuller article in CL this week, and online, and you’ll note that I don’t pull punches. As far as my stock ownership, I’ve always acknowledged it, but it was never, as one comment stated, “a healthy proportion.” A tiny, tiny fraction of the company.

By: Vic

Vic — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:53:54 +0000

keep your chins and fists up. McClatchy is next.

By: S. Dekalb Voter

S. Dekalb Voter — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:50:14 +0000

The chickens are coming to roost. The quality of CL’s reporting has gone down tremendously in the last decade. What was once a great alternative weekly has become a tabloid filled with yellow journalism. Boy do I miss the days of the old CL, where you could count on them to provide a good alternative to the AJC. Now with idiots like John Sugg, who use the paper as his personal attack dog, the editorals and news are basically worthless. Maybe the “restructure” will force some of the bad apples out. They should start with Sugg.

By: Karma

Karma — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:23:12 +0000

Ah John John John who’s made a career crapping on the AJC and other mainstream papers and gloating in their death knell.

Kinda sucks when what goes around comes around, doesn’t it?

Where’s your spite now, you blowhard? Such a muted diplomatic write-up of your own organization’s ineptitude.

I hope the Loaf survives because it’s proven pretty valuable when I’m trying to plan what shows to go check out. But I hope they put you and your bombast out to pasture.